Providing Information to Users Via a Website

If you are a system administrator, you are likely the primary source of information for Cisco Unified IP Phone users in your network or company. It is important to provide current and thorough information to end users.

Cisco recommends that you create a web page on your internal support site that provides end users with important information about their Cisco Unified IP Phones.

How Users Obtain Support for the Cisco Unified IP Phone

To successfully use some of the features on the Cisco Unified IP Phone (including speed dial and voice messaging system options), users must receive information from you or from your network team or be able to contact you for assistance. Make sure to provide end users with the names of people to contact for assistance and with instructions for contacting those people.

Giving Users Access to the User Options Web Pages

Before a user can access the User Options web pages, you must use Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration to add the user to a standard Cisco Unified Communications Manager end user group: choose User Management > User Groups. For additional information, refer to:

How Users Configure Phone Features

End users can perform a variety of activities by using the Cisco Unified Communications Manager User Options web pages. These activities include setting up speed dial on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6911, setting up call forwarding numbers on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911, and creating a personal address book. Keep in mind that configuring settings on a phone by using a website might be new for your end users. You need to provide as much information as possible to ensure that they can successfully access and use the User Options web pages.

Make sure to provide end users with the following information about the User Options web pages:

•The URL required to access the application. This URL is:

http://<server_name:portnumber>/ccmuser/, where server_name is the host on which the web server is installed.

How Users Access a Voice Messaging System

Cisco Unified Communications Manager lets you integrate with many different voice messaging systems, including the Cisco Unity voice messaging system. Because you can integrate with a variety of systems, you must provide users with information about how to use your specific system.

You should provide this information to each user:

•How to access the voice messaging system account.

Make sure that you have used Cisco Unified Communications Manager to configure the Messages button on the Cisco Unified IP Phone.

•Initial PIN for accessing the voice messaging system.

Make sure that you have configured a default voice messaging system PIN for all users.

•How the phone indicates that voice messages are waiting.

Make sure that you have used Cisco Unified Communications Manager to set up a message waiting indicator (MWI) method.